365 Days, 365 Files: Camper Van Beethoven – She Divines Water
Where Key Lime Pie was panned, praise was heaped in mountainous mounds on Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart. Perhaps I exaggerate, but I know my favorite rock magazine at the time certainly weighed in thusly.
I purchased Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart on cassette a few months after getting Key Lime Pie back when the ’80s became the ’90s. I didn’t fall in love with it the way I did its successor, but the strange effects that close "She Divines Water" stayed with me.
I upgraded that cassette to CD a few weeks ago, and the album still can’t penetrate my subconscious. That’s probably because Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart is all over the place. Camper Van Beethoven throw everything into a song, and the results can overwhelm each other.
I always felt like the album was ending when "She Divines Water" comes on. It’s only the fourth track of the album.
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